Re: netapp-alike snapshots?

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09.09.2017 16:44, Ulli Horlacher пишет:
> 
> Your tool does not create .snapshot subdirectories in EVERY directory like

Neither does NetApp. Those "directories" are magic handles that do not
really exist.

> Netapp does.
> Example:
> 
> framstag@fex:~: cd ~/Mail/.snapshot/
> framstag@fex:~/Mail/.snapshot: l
> lR-X - 2017-09-09 09:55 2017-09-09_0000.daily -> /local/home/.snapshot/2017-09-09_0000.daily/framstag/Mail

Apart from obvious problem with recursive directory traversal (NetApp
.snapshot are not visible with normal directory list) those will also be
captured in snapshots and cannot be removed. NetApp snapshots themselves
do not expose .snapshot "directories".

> lR-X - 2017-09-09 14:00 2017-09-09_1400.hourly -> /local/home/.snapshot/2017-09-09_1400.hourly/framstag/Mail
> lR-X - 2017-09-09 15:00 2017-09-09_1500.hourly -> /local/home/.snapshot/2017-09-09_1500.hourly/framstag/Mail
> lR-X - 2017-09-09 15:18 2017-09-09_1518.single -> /local/home/.snapshot/2017-09-09_1518.single/framstag/Mail
> lR-X - 2017-09-09 15:20 2017-09-09_1520.single -> /local/home/.snapshot/2017-09-09_1520.single/framstag/Mail
> lR-X - 2017-09-09 15:22 2017-09-09_1522.single -> /local/home/.snapshot/2017-09-09_1522.single/framstag/Mail
> 
> My users (and I) need snapshots in this way.
> 
> 

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